Camille Belmin
Guest Research Scholar
Migration and Sustainable Development Research Group
Population and Just Societies Program
Biography
Camille Belmin (she/her) is a researcher in the Migration and Sustainable Development Research Group of the IIASA Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Program. She specializes in sustainability transitions and their perceptions from society, population-environment-gender issues, as well as narratives for ecological and social transformation.She completed her PhD in 2024 in sociology at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, where she studied the links between the energy transition in low-income countries, the fertility transition, and women's empowerment. During her PhD, she worked at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in the Future Lab Social Metabolism and Impacts, where she is still a guest scientist. In addition, she holds a master’s degree in environmental economics from Université Paris-Saclay in France.
She is also a freelancer data scientist and artist. Since 2021, one of her main clients has been SoGreen — a social and climate startup aiming to leverage climate finance into girls’ education programs.
In addition to research activities, Belmin also focuses on the interconnectedness of science and art. She has been a lecturer at the Cross-Disciplinary Strategies department of the University of Applied Arts, and is also involved in the Art & Science masters program and at Klasse fuer Alle. Since 2023, she produced and participated in several exhibitions, both in Vienna and Berlin. She also co-organizes workshops, aiming to foster interactions and collaborations between scientists and artists, together with the association Science meets Art.
In 2021, she participated in the IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) as part of both the Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) and POPJUS programs, and received an honorable mention for her research at the YSSP Awards.
Last update: 26 JUN 2024
Publications
Belmin, C. , Bez, C.S., & Soomauroo, Z. (2026). Deconstructing the ivory tower: The liminal space between margins and centers in climate research. Energy Research & Social Science 132 e104553. 10.1016/j.erss.2026.104553.
Hoffmann, R., Patange, O. , Zimm, C. , Pachauri, S. , Belmin, C. , Pelz, S. , Brutschin, E. , Kikstra, J. , Kuhn, M., Min, J. , Muttarak, R. , Riahi, K. , Schinko, T. , & Mintz-Woo, K. (2025). Subnational survey data reveal persistent gaps in living standards across 75 low and middle-income countries. Nature Communications 16 (1) e4986. 10.1038/s41467-025-60195-5.
Creutzig, F., McPhearson, T., Bardhan, R., Belmin, C. , Chow, W.T.L., Garschagen, M., Hsu, A., Kılkış, Ş., Islam, S.T., Milojevic-Dupont, N., Pathak, M., Pereira, R.H.M., Salehi, P., & Ürge-Vorsatz, D. (2025). Bridging the scale between the local particular and the global universal in climate change assessments of cities. Nature Cities 2 369-378. 10.1038/s44284-025-00226-w.
Belmin, C. , Pichler, P.-P., Marois, G. , Pachauri, S. , & Weisz, H. (2024). The energy-population dividend: Evidence from energy-specific population projections. Environmental Research Letters 20 e014047. 10.1088/1748-9326/ad9850.
Carr, R., Kotz, M., Pichler, P.-P., Weisz, H., Belmin, C. , & Wenz, L. (2024). Climate change to exacerbate the burden of water collection on women’s welfare globally. Nature Climate Change 14 700-706. 10.1038/s41558-024-02037-8.